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Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 8:07:37 GMT
In 2008, the organization changed its name and began projecting of transhumanism, advocating the safe and ethical use of technology to augment human capabilities. The concept of transhumanism has been championed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including Google co-founder Larry Page, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla's Elon Musk. In 2010, was founded, a research and development company whose goal is to use advanced technology to extend human life expectancy. Founded by Musk in 2009, he hopes to establish human colonies on the moon and Mars, and launched in 2019 to UK Mobile Number List develop implantable brain chips. In March 2009, the brain chip company announced that it had successfully implanted a chip into the brain of a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the United States. The chip is designed to allow severely paralyzed patients to use digital forms of thought-based communication. That same year, Bezos and other transhumanists invested $100 million in biotech companies working to reverse aging and disease. The Idea of Immortality. Perspectives As the idea of transhumanism evolved from theory to reality in the late and early 2000s, the scientific and philosophical debates surrounding it ensued. Scientific breakthroughs, including stem cell therapies, in vitro fertilization, brain chips, animal cloning, exoskeletons (such as robotic arms), artificial intelligence, and genomics, have shifted the conversation between advocates and critics of transhumanism from the future to the present.
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